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Campaigning in the USA

Heather Hastie — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 04:31:06 +0000

I’m in the middle of writing a post about the benefits of a single-payer healthcare system. The inspiration for that came from a CNN Town Hall with Senator Kamala Harris (Dem., California) last week. Senator Harris is running for president in the 2020 election. It’s almost two years until that election, and already multiple people […]

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The Direction of World Politics (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 03:00:40 +0000

It’s been a while, so I thought I should at least attempt a Tweets Post. There are a couple of things to catch you up on in my personal life. Firstly, things are much better now I have a decent chair. However, the damage done while I was waiting for that to happen hasn’t gone […]

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Update III, Helsinki, Trump, Putin, and Tweets

Heather Hastie — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 06:09:28 +0000

Hopefully, this is the last of these just-to-keep-things-ticking-over-with-some-tweets posts. Last week, I had a Needs Assessment by an Occupational Therapist. As a result, I’m expecting a new chair within the next week or so. Otherwise things are pretty much the same on the home front. “My cat” (really the neighbour’s cat who has chosen me […]

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Trump is a Fu€ki₦g Moron re JCPOA

Heather Hastie — Wed, 09 May 2018 03:53:57 +0000

I can’t believe this is happening. Well I can. But I held onto hope overnight that someone would talk him out of this. However, I awoke to the news that President Trump has actually announced that he’s pulling the US out of the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) aka the Iran Nuclear Agreement. The […]

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Trump Should Retain the Iran Nuclear Agreement (JCPOA)

Heather Hastie — Thu, 03 May 2018 02:56:16 +0000

A couple of days ago, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, did a slick presentation announcing he had proof that Iran was lying when they signed the Iran Nuclear Agreement. (It’s official name is the JCPOA – Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.) Therefore, his logic went, the deal should be torn up. This comes at the […]

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Just Catching Up (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 03:05:14 +0000

The sacking of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe last night by US Attorney General Jeff Sessions was to be the subject of today’s post. However, thing’s aren’t going to plan. The post is not going to be worthy of public viewing today. Further, I’m going to be busy in the real world for the next […]

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Trump to Meet North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un

Heather Hastie — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 06:00:45 +0000

Since long before he became president, Donald Trump has been attacking and insulting Kim Jong-un and North Korea. CNN has a new article that’s a compilation of ‘All the times President Trump has insulted North Korea‘. As you can imagine, there’s a lot there, and includes plenty of tweets. Trump has also made it clear […]

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Trump’s Steel Tariffs Will Damage the US Economy

Heather Hastie — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 06:27:23 +0000

Last week President Trump announced that he was putting a 25% tariff on all imports of steel to the US, and 10% on all imports of aluminium. There would be no exceptions. The announcement was quite sudden, with virtually no consultation. Trump is making the move using what the Council on Foreign Relations describes as […]

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The US Enemies List (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 03:28:24 +0000

One of my recent tweets is a just-released Gallup poll. Since 2001, Gallup has asked USians an open-ended question about their country’s enemies. That question is, “What one country anywhere in the world do you consider to be the United States’ greatest enemy today?” For the first time since asking this question, North Korea is […]

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Trump and the Jerusalem Decision (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 02:58:12 +0000

Tweets are about the least important thing on my mind at the moment. On Wednesday morning I had a bad fall. Walking is never that easy for me, but now every step is agony. Still, that’s actually not the worst of my problems. 3½ hours later my landlord told me she was selling the house. […]

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